Former host of Venom; Eddie Brock's been gunning down the offspring of the alien symbiote and took down Hybrid and Scream. Current Venom host Flash Thompson has been offered membership on Secret Avengers and his suit is kept in containment, only to sent back to him whenever needed through Pym Particles. He is tasked with Human Fly's prison transfer, where Hobgoblin breaks in to kill the prisoner on behalf of Kingpin but Fly escapes. He heads to Crime-Master's place, deciding to put an end to his reign of terror while secretly being watched by Eddie Brock. Crime-Master invited Human Fly to join his group consisting Death Adder, Jack O'Lantern and Megatak. As Flash was about to get the drop on the villain, Brock suddenly intervenes and got captured.

Venom has fled and Eddie Brock is forced to merge with the Toxin symbiote and complete his team of Savage Six. Betty Brant meets Peter Parker at Empire Java and after he leaves, Jack approaches her. Flash quickly breaks in as Venom to save Betty, but Megatak and Toxin joins the fight, overwhelming him. Venom takes her to safety and then reveals his secret identity as Flash. Meanwhile, Human Fly visits Flash's mother and he finds his brother-in-law killed by Jack O'Lantern. While he was busy saving his sister Jessie Thompson, Toxin returns to kidnap Betty. To check on his mom, Flash visits her apartment and is attacked by Death Adder. Now, Flash has to take out the Savage Six alone and Crime-Master has yet to reveal his secret connection with Betty Brant.

After apparently saving the world from Mephisto's son Blackheart alongside Ghost Rider, Red Hulk and X-23, Venom gets his place among the ranks of Secret Avengers, alongside Beast, Captain America, Giant-Man and Valkyrie, who made their guest appearance in the story. Writer Cullen Bunn (Drax – The Children's Crusade, Drax – The Galaxy’s Best Detective) now joins series regular Rick Remender (Black Science, Tokyo Ghost) for the plot of "Savage Six", while collaborating with penciller Declan Shalvey (28 Days Later, Moon Knight), Kev Walker (Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper) and Lan Medina (Cable/Deadpool – Living Legends, Deathlok – The Demolisher). Artist Tony Moore (Fear Agent, The Walking Dead) served as the regular cover artist for the storyline that ran from issues #15-22 of the second Venom ongoing series from Marvel Comics in 2012.
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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Jack O'Lantern showed up at Flash Thompson's father's funeral on behalf of his boss Crime-Master with a deal that involves retrieving a package for him or see his family suffer. Given the situation, Flash had no other choice but to comply to keep his loved ones safe. This led him to steal the symbiote for himself when Captain America comes in to shut down "Project Rebirth" the next day and then he flees the facility. Cap gives Flash a chase into the forest and these two fights for control as the former unsuccessfully tries to convince to give up the suit.

Flash managed to best Captain America in combat and when he got back with the suit, he found himself teaming up with Jack O'Lantern to a road-trip. Cap then tasked Red Hulk with a solo mission to retrieve Venom symbiote and bring it back to base. The following day, Flash and Jack heads straight to Devil's Den Casino of Las Vegas, where they breaks in to get the Toxin symbiote for Crime-Master but as soon as Venom senses it, Flash loses control over his suit and things goes way out of hand.

Venom – Circle of Four | Comics

Whatever control Flash had over the symbiote is gone and tries to eleminate the Toxin symbiote so that it could not compete with Venom for a battle of dominance on Earth in future. Jack O'Lantern breaks in to secure the package and remind Flash to calm down as he puts the symbiote in a container. Venom completely ignores anything that Jack said and keeps violently pouncing at the villain to get the container back. Crime-Master suggests Jack to run for his life and he barely made it out of Flash's clutch by threatening his family if the latter doesn't comply.

Flash calls Betty and breaks up with her to cut ties with her and save her from Crime-Master and Jack O'Lantern. By the time, he calmed down, General Thunderbolt Ross AKA the Red Hulk was looking for the symbiote to take it back into custody. Seeing a hostile Rulk breaking-in, the suit tries to take over him and they blew up a gas station in the ensuing struggle. Meanwhile, Wolverine's cloned daughter X-23 gets into the casino tracking the trail of a vial of her blood and discovers a band of Symbiote Warriors cloned in tubes.

Devil's Den Casino owner Mr. Degli and his girlfriend Ms. Oyle goes to a satanic machine with hundred sinful souls to open a black doorway and sensing this, the new Spirit of Vengeance; Alejandra Jones heads to the location, leaving Johnny Blaze in the Nevada desert. While rushing into the scene, Alejandra accidentally helped activate the doorway as demons enters Earth. Mr. Degli and Ms. Oyle reveal them to be Blackheart and his lover Gari Oyle as Ghost Rider, Red Hulk, Venom and X-23 appears to fight Hell and Antithesis; the dark counterpart of their own to save Earth.

"Circle of Four" is a six-part plotline that ran into the second monthly ongoing comic-book volume of Venom from Marvel Comics, written by Jeff Parker, Rick Remender (AXIS, Captain America – Castaway in Dimension Z), Rob Williams and drawn by Julian Tedesco, Lan Medina, Lee Garbett, Sana Takeda, Tony Moore (Deadpool, Punisher). The story is another father-son hatred battle to rise to power in Hell between the demon Blackheart and his father Mephisto. As always, Mephisto found some pawns to do his bidding and gave them something that they wanted in return like a master manipulator.

Circle of Damnation

This skirmish of Hell also added never before teamed-up characters like Ghost Rider, Red Hulk, Venom and X-23 side by side to work as a team, which also is homage to the New Fantastic Four storyline from the 90's. Though it was very hard to match their combined ego to go team but dire objective in hand really motivated them all to act as a group and they had no other choice left. Aside from the unusual alliance formed during the story, characters like Doctor Strange, Hellstorm, Secret Avengers member Beast and Giant-Man made cameo appearance into it at one point.
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Thursday, January 7, 2010

In 1977, adult film producer Wong Hung Low had a huge debt to pay to the Mafia, which he decides to pay back by shooting a couple of adult films frequently by over three nights. So, he along with actor Jeremy Ronald then planned to shoot a dozen of porn over night, have gathered the popular stars of the Adult Entertainment business under one roof for some non-stop shooting of hardcore porn. Meanwhile, a passenger plane crashed near HollywoodHills area that got the attention of the nearby locals and medics who immediately ran towards the scene to care for the victims of the crush. But the gathered crowd was shocked at the revelation of a Zombie outbreak spreading in the city and by then the turned people had already started eating the living ones.

As the pause-less shooting of screwing was about to run on full throttle, the production unit of Wong also experienced some of the unexpected bizarre incidents. Despite all of these, Wong sees it as a great money making opportunity as he plans to use the zombified porn-stars in his films. During this time of madness, a rough and tough convoy trucker Mitch Hooper was busy busting his way through the zombie plague to get his daughter back home safe from the clutches of the greedy pornographers and the flesh hungry undeads. While the camera kept rolling, the Mafia were not happy about the delay of their debt and suddenly all the sleaziness turned into a game of death in 70's style.

XXXombies is published on 2007 by Image Comics, a four issue 18+ only mini-series, for the line of horror comic book, called Crawl Space. The main plot of this grind-house of dread is delivered by renowned writer and artist Rick Remender (Sea of Red, Fear Agent) and Kieron Dwyer (Night Mary) served as penciller. The actual plot was cooked up by Remender himself with artist Tony Moore (The Walking Dead, The Exterminators) way back and Moore later did the alternate covers for this series. Also a few real life porn stars made their appearance in the series as zombie!
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Saturday, September 27, 2008

While Rick and his group was facing a new threat by Dexter and his other fellow inmates at the prison, a Walker horde starts entering the prison yards for Andrew forgetting to lock the door. This forced all of the survivors to take a stand against the army of the undead corpses. To move an absolute obstacle from the way of a possible future dispute, Rick intentionally shoots Dexter in the middle of the ensuing chaos, which Tyreese saw but remained silent about it. In the aftermath of the fight, Axel made up with the team and Andrew ran off towards the massive horde outside.

Meanwhile, Otis is attacked by a group of Walkers outside the prison while approaching to the compound but a mysterious woman helps Otis fight the Zombies back with her katana. Introducing Michonne, a katana wielding lone femme fatale survivor of this dead world with two chained up crippled zombies tagged along with her. Otis and Michonne reach the prison gates but she is only allowed inside after she surrendered her weapon to Rick and beheads her pet walkers.

The Walking Dead – The Heart's Desire | Comics

Glenn and Maggie were working on slowly taking out roaming Walkers around the fences to clear out the area. During the cleanup of the prison blocks, Allen got bitten in his leg and Rick immediately amputates the limb to stop spreading the infection but he dies anyway after some time. Otis chastises Patricia for her siding with the homicidal inmate earlier, which was responsible for the death of two of Harshel's children.

As Carol and Tyreese were in the gym, Michonne enters there to lift weights and even recognizes him from his NFL days. This made Carol slightly upset and she leaves. Later, Michonne seduces Tyreese and gave him oral sex, which caused a break-up between Carol Peletier and him, followed by a mental breakdown that led her to suicidal attempt. Rick entirely blames Tyreese for this mess and they got into a heated argument.

This argument quickly turned into a fight and Tyreese got the upper hand in the brawl. He questions Rick's sanity, causing him to step back as the leader of the survivors' group. Still, considering his contribution to the group's survival, they chose to make him one of the "co-leaders" of the group alongside Dale and Hershel. Andrea finds Michonne talking to an imaginary person which made no sense to her.

"The Heart's Desire" is a storyline from The Walking Dead monthly ongoing comic-book series and consists of issue #19-24 by writer Robert Kirkman (Image United, Invincible) and artist Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files). The storyline is published by Image Comics in 2005 and is the continuation of "Safety Behind Bars". This volume has introduced Michonne, a character who will play important role in the upcoming surviving chronicles. Also this is the final volume of The Walking Dead series that features the covers illustrated by artist Tony Moore (Fear Agent, Punisher).

Introducing Michonne

Though, Michonne's character has made her debut on issue #19, which is the first chapter of this entire plot, the character was introduced on the first episode of Season 3 from AMC's The Walking Dead TV show. Compared to comic-book storyline chronology to the show's timeline, she appeared almost half the season later. Michonne's character was portrayed by actor Danai Gurira for the series. Later, the story continued in "The Best Defense" arc, exploring the saga in depth from here.
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Rick Grimes and his group were forced to leave Harshel Greene's farm behind after an incident that caused the death of many of Harshel's children. Glenn however, left behind from the group to the farm to pursue his relationship with Maggie. The group once again came out on the road-trip that they started from Atlanta. Dale and Andrea finally came across a completely abandoned prison facility over the hills and they all decide to reside there permanently if possible.

Not willing to spend any more nights in the RV, Rick, along with Andrea and Tyreese makes a plan and starts cleaning up the outer yard of the prison from Walkers using only their regular melee weapons. Rest of the group members were to stay put inside the RV and look after the children. Soon, the trio cleaned up most of the Walkers and then they killed off all the rest by using firepower in the end as more of them starts pouring in.

The Walking Dead – Safety Behind Bars | Comics

The next day when the group was doing their assigned clean-up jobs and looking inside the prison compound, hoping to get to a possible stockpile of canned food. They find out four remaining inmates; Dexter, Andrew, Axel and Thomas behind a barricaded closed door to the cafeteria. After introducing themselves to the prison inmates, Rick and his group of survivors were welcomed to the dinner table and allowed to co-exist with them as the inmates showed them way around.

Rick and Dale approaches Harshel Greene to join them back in the prison and he agrees as the farm was being attacked by the Walkers very often these days. They learn from a failed suicidal attempts by Chris and Julie, that people can get turned by not even have been bitten, which reminds Rick of taking care of an unfinished business and he heads to the location of their campsite. In an attempt to clear the gym, Tyreese was seen getting swarmed by the herd of Walkers inside, noting his seeming demise.

Harshel expresses his gratitude to Rick for welcoming his family to the prison that became his new home and apologizes for kicking him out of his farm earlier. Glenn and Maggie find the barber shop of the compound and gets naughty before giving each other a haircut. A gruesome murderous event took place inside the cell blocks that shatters Harshel completely and the inmates are the only ones to suspect for this.

"Safety Behind Bars" is the third storyline of the monthly ongoing series The Walking Dead from Image Comics, published on 2005. The storyline is narrated by series creator/writer Robert Kirkman (Battle Pope, Haunt) and artist Charlie Adlard (Judge Dredd, The X-Files), collecting issues #13-18 from The Walking Dead monthly series. Cover arts featuring the single issues of the arc were all done by artist Tony Moore (Fear Agent, Punisher).

When Dead Comes Knocking

The story "Safety Behind Bars" has served as the primary inspiration for the Season 03 of The Walking Dead TV series aired on AMC. Even though the source material from the comic-book was what started to inspire the show in the beginning, it starts to differentiate from the roots as the TV show progressed. This story follows the events of "Miles Behind Us" and later the saga follows "The Heart's Desire" story of the series.
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